strapi.md

Install

Create database sisterapi in postgres

CREATE USER strapi_user WITH PASSWORD 'whatever';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE sisterapi TO strapi_user;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON SCHEMA public TO strapi_user;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON ALL TABLES IN SCHEMA public TO strapi_user;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON ALL SEQUENCES IN SCHEMA public TO strapi_user;

Create a strapi user in Linux

sudo adduser --system --group --shell /bin/bash strapi
sudo mkdir -p /var/www/strapi
sudo chown strapi:strapi /var/www/strapi

Install node 20 LTS

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y ca-certificates curl gnupg
sudo mkdir -p /etc/apt/keyrings
curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/gpgkey/nodesource-repo.gpg.key | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/nodesource.gpg
NODE_MAJOR=20
echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/nodesource.gpg] https://deb.nodesource.com/node_$NODE_MAJOR.x nodistro main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nodesource.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nodejs -y

Install Yarn (optional but recommended): Yarn is often used as the package manager for Strapi: sudo npm install --global yarn

Install Strapi: Switch to the strapi user and install Strapi using either npx or yarn:

sudo -i -u strapi
cd /var/www/strapi
yarn create strapi-app sisterapi

Follow instructions and give database user details created before.

Set up a process manager: To ensure that Strapi stays running, you should use a process manager like pm2. Install and set it up as follows:

mkdir ~/.npm-global
npm config set prefix '~/.npm-global'
export PATH=~/.npm-global/bin:$PATH
exit
sudo -i -u strapi
cd /var/www/strapi
npm install pm2@latest -g
cd /var/www/strapi/sisterapi
pm2 start npm --name sisterapi -- run start
pm2 startup

Then with sister user run:

sudo env PATH=$PATH:/usr/bin /home/strapi/.npm-global/lib/node_modules/pm2/bin/pm2 startup systemd -u strapi --hp /home/strapi
sudo chown -R strapi:strapi /var/www/strapi/sisterapi

Open ports

sudo ufw allow 1337 comment 'Strapi'
sudo ufw reload
sudo ufw status

Strapi user: pm2 save